Books : Shakespeare's Sonnets (Highbridge Classics)
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by: William Shakespeare
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 821
EAN: 9781598870077
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 1598870076
Label: Highbridge Audio
Manufacturer: Highbridge Audio
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 120
Publication Date: October 20, 2005
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Sales Rank: 108435
Studio: Highbridge Audio
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Product Description:
The bard's sonnets read by a leading actor of stage and screen Simon Callow.
Savor the most celebrated love poems in the English language. Written almost 400 years ago, the sonnets of William Shakespeare are passionate and exalted, rich in imagery and alliteration, and full of mystery and intrigue.
This selection presents all 154 sonnets composed from 1593-1601. In words and rhyme, he reveals his infatuation with the 'Dark Lady,' his relationship with a rival poet, and his private thoughts on love, death, beauty, and truth: timeless themes that span the centuries to touch our hearts today.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Not good for children
We purchased this audiobook with our children in mind, hoping it might serve as an introduction to Shakespearean language while freeing us up to pursue our own interests during car trips. Disappointingly, Mr. Callow's affected speech proves very difficult to follow, even after repeated hearings. He speaks far too quickly and musically, which distracts from the sonnets themselves.
Additionally, the sonnets are not each clearly delineated from the other. Strained ears find the occasional ... Read More
Rating:  - Callow is a very fine instrument
This guy read the Auden in Four Weddings and Funeral I think. Simon Callow treats his voice as an instrument. He can strum and roar and hiss and bellow. And he has taken some trouble with the notes and tones. This may seem a rather contrived sensibility at first, but he uses his velvet oboe of his voice to a fine effect, calling it to the issue of the meaning prehaps more than a concern for a natural tone. And I quickly got over this modern quibble. The sonnets are contrivances and they are also concerned ... Read More
Rating: - A BRILLIANT READING OF SHAKESPEARE
Tongue tied when it comes to telling someone how much you care? Send this audio book to that special person. You'll not only be thought romantic but erudite as well.
After all, even at your best you probably couldn't come up with
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date."
These love poems have been ... Read More
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